Just about every morning, my mother wakes up before the sun and heads down the road to a little diner for breakfast. This is likely her only moment of peace and solitude before beginning her day as a junior high teacher, full-time grandma to three of her grandsons, and part-time caretaker of her aging parents.
I’ve accompanied her on this trip before and I can say that coffee and eggs are always more enjoyable when prepared by someone else and eaten to the sounds of the jukebox in the background.
This year for Christmas, my mom went in with us on a big gift for Monkey – his own 50s diner. While we knew he’d have fun playing with all the plastic food and utensils (since it’s just about impossible to keep him out of my kitchen and away from my Pampered Chef goodies) we didn’t realize that he would actually use the diner for meals.
But he does. He’ll ring the little bell on the countertop and shout his order for the morning – “Chocolate milk and toast please!” or “I want bickits! Bickits and sawwsaaage!”- and then plop down with his iPad to catch up on what’s happening in Sodor.
I like to think that in some way, even though they’re hundreds of miles apart, he and his MawMaw are enjoying breakfast together some mornings.
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So cute!
Checking in on sodor <3 Love it. What a sweet sweet post, mama.
He’s so cute in the mornings, it’s making me a morning person. SO WEIRD.
I LOVE this!! That is such an awesome child-size diner.
We’re having way too much fun with it.
Hahah! What a perfect diner for grandson and grandma to enjoy together
I really hope they get to play together with it more often here soon!
That’s too adorable. Even more so to imagine grandma somewhere doing the same in a real diner!
I think it’s so funny that she gets up so early to do this now. Such a far cry from her previous morning routine.
I love this post! Whenever I am at “Gary’s” I will imagine Monkey sitting at his diner enoying his breakfast:) What a sweet thought to get me through the weeks between visits.
Only a few more weeks! You can start counting them in terms of Gary’s breakfast…so, how many more cups of coffee before you’ll be here?
How cute is this?! I love the picture in his little chair. I can just imagine his little (big) orders every morning. How sweet (and a little bossy. Ha!). He and his MawMaw will bond in those restaurants some day, I bet, over syrup and butter and conversation.
Oh, and I’m totally lame and don’t get the joke of the title.
Haha, it’s short order cook speak. Two scrambled eggs on toast.
I love that he rings the bell!! Small diners are the best and I am sure his is sublime. He looks adorable! I would be leary of any inidentifable tips.
I also refuse to eat “invisible” food off play forks. My mother got fed a booger that way.
This is seriously awesome. Just so cute. Do you respond to shouted breakfast orders??
Yes. I know. I’m terrible.
That diner is incredible!!
It’s too much fun. I bought it for me. Let’s be honest.
HOLY Cuteness! That is so charming! And your Mother sounds like she knows how to start her day!
She’s grabbing the only opportunity for solitude available!
HA! oh yes….its my shower time. It was almost 30 minutes of just standing in a quiet shower before I realized the girls were at school so I didn’t have to escape!
I just love that he actually uses it as a place to sit and eat his real meals. that’s so awesome.
He drags it into the middle of the room if something is on the tv as well!
That is so cool!
I just saw an episode of Million Dollar Rooms on HGTV and someone there had a real 50′s diner in the basement.
Monkey’s version seems to be a good alternative
Much more budget-conscious! (Sidenote, I shopped around online and got a FABULOUS deal on this. That was part of the fun of it for me, haha.)
Oh. My. Word. If that’s not the cutest thing I’ve ever seen…and a very very sweet memory. By the way, I want one of those ipad holders for my ipad too! Luke is quite enjoying Phone4Kids lately — or as he likes to say, nay, SCREAM: KIDS!!!!
Target has them for $34, but I scored mine on Clearance at JCP.com for $23. They’re super durable, but no way to charge the iPad unless you take it out of the case first.